[CQ-Contest] Assisted or not assisted question

[Paul O'Kane]

On 03/06/2012 22:50, Dick Green WC1M wrote:

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> There were two problems with completely outlawing CW decoders. One, they had
> been permitted for a long time, and there's generally a reluctance to take
> away something that has been permitted.

It seems to me this is a long way of describing the
"do nothing" option.


> Second, RTTY and other digital modes
> require a single-channel decoder, and it would have required some special
> language to outlaw one kind of decoder but allow other kinds of decoders.

Please consider this - it's simple and unambiguous.
   CW decoders, whether single or multi-channel, are
   not permitted for Single Op.


> This is yet another reason that we chose to focus on the information
> provided by the technology, not the technology itself.

I believe this approach is flawed because the focus
is on the end result, and it disregards the means,
no matter how inappropriate, by which the result is
achieved.

73,
Paul EI5DI